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		jleyank on March 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Should scientific journals back political candidat... There are times when keeping silent = being complicit in what’s going down. In such times, normal behaviour isn’t appropriate.

feelthepain on March 29, 2023 [–]

No one's suggesting they 'stay silent'. Not endorsing a specific candidate when it appears to actually undermine trust/interest in their research and in science as a whole isn't staying silent. Ignoring their own research while asking others to 'listen to the science' seems an odd position for a journal to take.

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